All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

2011 1 Seasons ⭐ 8.288
Documentary War & Politics

We have been colonised by the machines we have built. Although we don't realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.

Seasons

1. Love and Power

2011-05-23 • ⭐ 9.0

In the first episode, Curtis tracks the effects of Ayn Rand's ideas on American financial markets, particularly via the influence on Alan Greenspan.

2. The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts

2011-05-30 • ⭐ 10.0

This episode investigates how machine ideas such as cybernetics and systems theory were applied to natural ecosystems, and how this relates to the false idea that there is a balan…

3. The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey

2011-06-06 • ⭐ 10.0

This programme looked into the selfish gene theory which holds that humans are machines controlled by genes which was invented by William Hamilton. Adam Curtis also covered the so…

Top Cast

Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand
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Peder Anker
David Attenborough
David Attenborough
Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
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Tord Björk
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Daniel Botkin
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Barbara Branden
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Nathaniel Branden

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